Steady isn’t very flashy and exciting. Steady is enduring and stable. It’s the straightaway. No loop-the-loops or corkscrews or stomach-in-your-throat drops. Just forward, and not very fast. I can be a bit of a thrill junkie. I love the adrenaline rush of being part of something new, something dramatic, something big and important. Having a…

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It’s 5:30am, and I’m sitting at my laptop in the corner of our family room. Coffee steams on the side table. My dog snores across the room. It is quiet. I have never been a morning person. I also didn’t need quiet the way I do now. Being a parent has driven me to seek…

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My Facebook newsfeed gets nearly unbearable during a presidential election cycle. Many of my friends and I don’t even read it anymore, or we block our more extreme friends so we don’t have to see all the vitriol. This week, we decided to find the humor in all of the name-calling, gloom and doom predictions, and…

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This is my costume this year. I think it might be my most favorite ever. (For a peek at school-aged Joy, check out the Halloween greeting on Deeper Story today.) What will you be dressing up as this year? What was your favorite costume? (No Life:Unmasked link-up today, since many of us will be donning…

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At least once a week, I fantasize about burning down the internet. At least once a week, I seriously consider quitting the blog, quitting Facebook, quitting putting myself out here like this. At least once a week, I think that all this stuff I’ve written about being real and open and honest, about taking down…

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